> -----Original Message----- > From: Amos Jeffries [mailto:squ...@treenet.co.nz]
Hi Amos > If you get 4+ core hardware, a CARP model with one instance receiving > all requests and balancing across the other cores for actual storage > handling with 1+ disk per core scales extremely well. I'll go read up on CARP I wonder whether CARP + TPROXY would play together nicely though? > I'd be interested in hearing what req/sec you manage to achieve. We > only > have reported performances for up to 3.0 so far. OK no worries, I will send through some info once we get our gear up and running. > > There are choices for the disk controller. Eg HP lets you choose > between > > 256M, 512M, 1G RAM on the supplied P410i RAID card. We wouldn't be > running > > any RAID, but would extra RAM on the card still be helpful with > speeding up > > disk access for squid? > > If the drives use it. Squid is not very helpful for things like that > yet. OK, rather than buying more RAID RAM it sounds like its probably better to just put that money towards an additional spindle. Michael.
